I do my best to placate it, domesticate it, dull its claws, avoid its fangs, knowing that at any moment it can pounce on me and tear me to bits.
She humanized nature without domesticating it.
Not surprisingly, they filtered their new and overpoweringly exotic subject through a Romantic lens, softening and domesticating it.
It might have made a nice pet if anyone had been around to domesticate it, but the first hominids were a good 50 million years in the future.
The future is going to be a little better than today and we should embrace it so we have a better chance of domesticating it, so to speak.
The bigger the universe grew in our perception and in fact, the greater the interest in trying to domesticate it with dynamic light shows.
"The people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it," wrote the Indian author Salman Rushdie in an essay in 1991.
We find this mixture of triumph and disappointment throughout Murray's work; the world whose immensities so impress her can be captured in a poem, but not without domesticating it.
In fact, the turkey had come from Mexico, conveyed to Europe no later than 1521, probably by Cortés, who had been introduced to it by the Aztecs, who had been domesticating it for centuries, probably by Joe Hutto's method of imprinting, followed by an accelerated version of Darwin's — a kind of unnatural selection.
And, in another blog post, took his critque one step further, describing it as "exploitationware" and "bullshit, invented by consultants as a means to capture the wild, coveted beast that is videogames and to domesticate it for use in the grey, hopeless wasteland of big business... ........ Bogost's point is that "gamification" over simplifies and misunderstands what makes games powerful.
